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Report: Apple to Acquire Live Event Streaming Company NextVR for $100M

Road to VR

Founded in 2009, the Orange County-based startup broadcasts stereoscopic video of live sports and music to a wide swath of VR headsets, including Oculus Go, Oculus Quest, PSVR, and PC VR headsets such as HTC Vive and Oculus Rift S. SEE ALSO Apple AR Headset FOV, Codename, and Stereoscopic Rendering Mode Reportedly Found in iOS 13.1.

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Samsung hints at a future mixed reality headset (and at unsolvable problems for Gear VR)

The Ghost Howls

When in 2015 I had my first Samsung Gear VR, I was amazed: finally, I could enjoy high-quality tether-less virtual reality. And it was great also because it was portable : some evenings, I took it with me and let my friend try high-quality virtual reality. Is Samsung no longer interested in VR anymore?

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Report Predicts AR and VR Headsets Shipments to Approach 100 Million by 2021

Road to VR

” 2016 saw the arrival of 3 major consumer virtual reality headsets, the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR. IDC themselves predicted in 2011 that by 2015, Microsoft’s then new (and now dead) Windows Phone platform would overtake Apple’s IOS as in the mobile phone market. billion in 2016 to $18.6

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Forecast: VR Market Will Reach $162 Billion by 2020

VRScout

The virtual and augmented reality industry is just starting to take off. According to research from the International Data Corporation (IDC), worldwide revenues for the augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) market is forecast to grow from $5.2 HTC Vive most talked about headset on social media.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

SNAPCHAT PREPARES FOR EVEN MORE AUGMENTED REALITY FEATURES. is about to roll out more robust augmentation to the World Lenses feature which will allow you to overlay images onto particular objects in the real world like buildings or cars. NEW CONTROLLERS & NEW GAMES ON HORIZON FOR HTC VIVE AND VALVE.

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WEARVR LAUNCHES $10,000 VIRTUAL REALITY REMASTERED COMPETITION

Cats and VR

Your entry can also be remastered for the HTC Vive or other contemporary VR platforms as well, but must include the CV1. The entry must include some manner of enhancement over the original (visuals, audio, controls, content, etc) that makes it contemporary with new releases on the Oculus platform.

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KLM’s Chris Koomen teaches us how to use AR/VR in the civil aviation sector

The Ghost Howls

Hi, I am Chris Koomen, a Virtual Reality specialist and consult at KLM and board of advisory members at Bootcamp. In 2015 my girlfriend came with a Cardboard and with no experience with Unity I created my first 360 photo which I’ve shown to my manger. This was such a game-changer that she asked me what we could do with that.

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